The fancier man's rum and coke, but no less delicious.

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Build all ingredients in a highball glass filled with ice.

Lightly stir.

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Accounts of the invention of the Cuba Libre vary. One account claims that the drink (Spanish for 'Free Cuba') was invented in Havana, Cuba around 1901/1902. Patriots aiding Cuba during the Spanish–American War—and, later, expatriates avoiding Prohibition—regularly mixed rum and cola as a highball and a toast to this Caribbean island.

Ironically, in the Cuba Libre's early days it was considered foreign and exotic, due to dark syrup -- that of kola and cocoa -- being a rarity in cocktails and highballs. (Oh, how things have changed.)